Takabatana neyedu “Vashandi muKuchengeta” chirongwa chakapihwa mari neUA-Federation yeNew York, iyo Y ichaisa mabvunzurudzo kubva kune vapenyu vemunharaunda vatanhatu kuti vanzwisise zvirinani nyaya yemumwe nemumwe. Idzi bvunzurudzo dzicharatidzirwa kuHeberu Tabernacle gallery “Kuwana Nguva Yehondo uye Beyond: Mifananidzo yeVapenyu Vakaparadzwa neHolocaust”. Iyo gallery ichave ichivhura neChishanu Mbudzi 8th.
Hannah Eisner worked at the Y for 18 makore, as an office manager for Project Hope and then as a program director in the senior center. She retired in 1987, but currently is the chair of the chesed committee, attends the Partner in Caring weekly discussion group, and on occasion teaches an origami class here at the Y once a week.
Hannah Eisner(Basketball Clinic yeVasikana: www.mapeworld.com)
Hannah Eisner was born in Offenbach, Germany on November 12, 1924. She grew up in Offenbach with both of her parents. Her father worked as the vice president of a Jewish owned private bank and her mother was a stay at home mom. After 1934, Jewish children were not allowed to go to public schools, so they were taught by the Jewish teachers who were also not welcome in public schools. This is how the Jewish school in Offenbach came about. Hannah describes, “I did not feel so deprived. We had our own community.” She remembers that Jews were not allowed to go anywhere in town. There were signs outside movie theaters and businesses that said “Jews not wanted.” She explained the treatment of the Jews: “they were treated like nothings. Like vermin.”
Before Kristallnacht, the super intendant of the building that Hannah’s dad worked in asked him for a favor, which Hannah’s father was able to help with. , Hannah and her parents believe that the reason that her father was not taken to a concentration camp and that her apartment was not demolished was because the super intendant paid this favor back. He protected Hannah’s family. Hannah recalls, “I felt almost embarrassed when everyone else’s father was taken, but he was safe. Still, whenever the doorbell rang, one was afraid one would be taken away. One lived in utter fear.” Hannah remembers mostly how much fear she and her family lived in. She states that there was no justice for Jews.
There was a small Jewish population in Offenbach, and during Kristallnacht, almost all of the apartments were ransacked and the synagogue was set on fire. After Kristallnacht, Hannah remembers the devastation that took place and how it affected her and her community. She remembers getting ready to go to school the next day and being told by one of her classmates to go home because there is no school left. Later on, she and one of her friends walked to the school, “we looked into the broken windows, we saw it all black and burned.” Jewish businesses were greatly affected. Their stores were empty, and no gentile dared to go in. She also describes that her father was pushed out of his position at the bank as the bank was taken over by someone else who was not Jewish. “After Kristallnacht, we knew we had to get out if we could.”
After the events of Kristallnacht, Hannah and her family waited their number to be called in order to come to America. She feared that their number would not be called because the American consulate closed over the summer; zvisinei, their number was called before the consulate closed. While waiting for their number to get called, Hannah and her family prepared for their journey by taking the little money that they had left and buying clothes so that when they reached America, they would have clothes and shoes. Hannah remembers that each day she waited to leave for America, she watched as the Jewish community shrunk.
One of Hannah’s most vivid memories involves her friend Lisel Strauss. When one would receive an affidavit to leave the country, often times the affidavit was not big enough to cover the whole family. The Strauss family did not have an affidavit that would cover all four of them. So the family split up. The father and younger sister, Ellen, went to American first. Lisel and her mother stayed behind with the hope that the father would soon be able to get an affidavit for the two of them. But Lisel and her mother never got out. Ellen married a man who was in the leather business, specifically handbags. The handbags that they made were called the Lisette, which was named after Lisel. (Hannah still has her original handbag, pictured above).
Many of Hannah’s relatives perished in Nazi death camps. She had a cousin who was imprisoned in one of the camps. Her cousin found a boyfriend at the camp. The boyfriend had an opportunity to leave the camp, but he decided to stay with Hannah’s cousin. They both ended up being murdered in the camp together.
The Eisner’s came to America in April 1939. Hannah had relatives in New York who rented a room for her family for a short period of time. She remembers, “to my surprise, the freedom here, the abundance…after relatives had picked us up, they rented a room for us until our few belongings did come…they wanted me to buy things in the grocery store. So with my best English I went down and I said ‘can I have an egg or two?’ They said ‘what? Why don’t you take a dozen?’ These were the surprises of an immigrant.” Hannah’s family would rent five bedroom apartments, which was bigger than what they needed in order to rent out rooms to other refugees who could not afford their own apartments. Hannah remembers, “I never had a room of my own. For a long, long time because we rented out two rooms. But I’m glad to be alive.” When they first arrived, Hannah’s father took a job as a door-to-door salesman. This was a tremendous step down from his position at the bank, but it was the only work he was able to get. Eventually, he was fortunate enough to get a job as a shipping clerk. Hannah’s mother worked very little from home; she stitched slippers together.
Hannah was 14 years old when she came to America. She attended junior high school and then George Washington High School. She was a bright student, but did not want to go to college because she would have to go to classes a night. After graduation, Hannah worked as a billing clerk in a slipper manufacturer.
Living through the devastation of Kristallnacht and the Holocaust affected Hannah in many ways throughout her life, but especially when it came to raising her children. She explains, “I was stricter with them because I felt that the others were killed and we survived so [my children] shouldn’t be so silly. So I was stricter on my boys, which I regret now.”
“Hitler made me proud to be a Jew. Hitler made me Jewish.” Hannah was married in 1950 to an Austrian man that she met in America. She has two sons and three grandchildren. Her middle grandson was just accepted into the Israeli Army. She is tremendously proud ofhim.
Iyi bvunzurudzo yakaitwa naHalley Goldberg weY's Partner muCaring chirongwa uye ndeyeYM&YWHA yeWashington Heights uye Inwood. Iko kushandiswa kwechinhu ichi pasina mvumo yakanyorwa kubva kune vese Y uye munhu aibvunzwa kwakarambidzwa zvachose. Tsvaga zvakawanda nezve Partner muCaring chirongwa pano: http://ywashhts.org/partners-caring-0
Hebrew Tabhenakeri’s Armin uye Estelle Goridhe Wing Gararimukubatana kwekudada neiyo YM&YWHA yeWashington Heights uye Inwoodanokukoka iwe kwatiriMbudzi / Zvita, 2013 Ratidza“Kuwana Nguva Yehondo uye Beyond: Mifananidzo yeVapenyu Vakaparadzwa neHolocaust” ine mifananidzo uye zvivezwa na: YAEL BEN-ZION, PETER BULOW uye ROJ RODRIGUEZ. Mukubatana neSpecial Service mundangarirowepa75th Chiitiko cheKristallnacht -husiku hweGirazi rakaputswaServices uye Artist Yekuvhura Reception, Chishanu, Mbudzi 8th, 2013 7:30 pm.
Chirevo kubva kuY : ” Kwemakumi emakore iyo Washington Heights / Inwood Y yanga iri, uye inoramba iri, nzvimbo yevaya vanopotera, kuremekedza uye kunzwisisa. Vazhinji vanopinda mumikova yedu uye vanotora chikamu muzvirongwa zvedu vakararama kuburikidza nemiedzo nematambudziko atisingagoni kana kutanga kufungidzira. Kune vamwe, ndiani achave chikamu chechiratidziro ichi, chimwe chinotyisa chakazozivikanwa pasi rose se "Kuurayiwa kwevanhu vazhinji" – kuuraya kwakarongeka kwemaJuda emamirioni matanhatu eEurope.
Isu paY tinorangarira zvakapfuura, kudzai avo vakararama uye vakafa panguva iyoyo, uye chengetedza chokwadi kuzvizvarwa zvinotevera. Nekuda kwedu pachedu nevana vedu, isu tinofanirwa kupfuudza pasi nyaya dzeavo vakasangana nehuipi hwehondo. Kune zvidzidzo zvinodzidziswa zvemberi. Kubvunzurudzwa kwakanyorwa naHalley Goldberg, manejimendi chirongwa che "Partners in Caring". Ichi chirongwa chakakosha chakagoneswa kuburikidza nerupo rubatsiro kubva kuUA-Federation yeNew York, yakagadzirirwa kusimudzira hukama nemasinagogi muWashington Heights neInwood. “
Yedu yekubatana art inoratidza mafoto uye kubvunzurudzwa kwevakapona paHolocaust, Hannah Eisner, Charlie naLilli Friedman, Pearl Rosenzveig, Fredy Seidel naRuth Wertheimer, vese vari nhengo dzeThe Hebrew Tabernacle, Ungano yechiJuda kuti maJuda mazhinji eGerman anotiza maNazi uye vane mukana wekuuya kuAmerica, vakabatana mukupera kwema1930. Uye zvakare isu tichakudzawo vakapona paHolocaust Gizelle Schwartz Bulow- amai vemuridzi wedu Peter Bulow uye akapona muWWII Yan Neznanskiy - baba veY's Chief Program Officer, Victoria Neznansky.
Basa rakakosha reSabata, nevatauri, mukuyeuka kwe75th Anniversary yeKristallnacht (Husiku hweGirazi rakaputswa) inotangira kuvhurwa kweGoridhe Garari / Y kuratidzwa:Mabasa anotanga nekukurumidza pa7:30 pm. Vese vanokokwa kuti vapinde.
Nezve gallery kuvhura maawa kana kuti uwane rumwe ruzivo ndapota fonera sinagogi pa212-568-8304 kana kuonahttp://www.vanodernabnews.orgChirevo cheArist: Yael Ben-Ziyoniwww.yabbenzion.comYael Ben-Zion akaberekerwa muMinneapolis, MN uye akakurira muIsrael. Iye akapedza kudzidza kuInternational Center of Photography's General Studies Chirongwa. Ben-Zion ndiye anogamuchira rubatsiro rwakasiyana uye mibairo, nguva pfupi yadarika kubva kuPuffin Foundation uye kubva kuNoMAA, uye basa rake rakaratidzirwa muUnited States uye muEurope. Akaburitsa maviri monographs ebasa rake. Anogara kuWashington Heights nemurume wake, nemapatya avo vakomana.
Chirevo cheArist: Peter Bulow: www.mapeworld.com
Amai vangu semwana, anga akavanda panguva yeHolocaust. Kwemakore, ruzivo rwake, kana izvo zvandakafungidzira kuve zvakaitika kwaari, yakandikurudzira zvakanyanya. Iko kufurira kunoonekwa zvese muhupenyu hwangu uye neangu hupenyu hwehunyanzvi. Ndakaberekerwa muIndia, ndakagara semwana mudiki muBerlin uye akatamira kuUS nevabereki vangu pazera 8. Ndine Masters muFine Arts mukuveza. Ndiri zvakare mugashiri wemubhadharo uyo unonditendera kuti ndiite huwandu hushoma hwemabhazi emabhazi evapukunyuki veHolocaust. Ndokumbira undizivise kana iwe uchifarira kuve chikamu cheichi chirongwa.
Chirevo cheArist :Roj Rodriguez: www.kamora.ro.com
Muviri wangu webasa unoratidza rwendo rwangu kubva kuHouston, TX - kwandakazvarirwa uye kukurira - kuNew York - kupi, yakatarisana nedzinza rayo, tsika nemagariro akasiyana siyana uye ayo akasarudzika maonero kune vanobva kune dzimwe nyika– Ndakawana rukudzo rutsva patsika nemunhu wese. Ini ndakadzidziswa nevakagadzika mifananidzo, akafamba nyika zvakanyanya uye akabatana nevazhinji nyanzvi dzepamusoro mumunda. Kubva munaNdira, 2006, basa rangu semutori wemifananidzo akazvimiririra rave danho rekutora mapurojekiti epamoyo anotora kubva mukunzwisisa kwangu kwenzira yatinogovana nayo nyika uye nekushandisa kugona kwedu zvizere.
